Economy of Western Sahara

[1] The territory lacks sufficient rainfall for sustainable agricultural production;[2] hence, most of the food for the urban population must be imported.

The government-in-exile of the Polisario Front had also signed contracts for oil exploration,[3] but there is no practical work, because the zones given are in the Moroccan-controlled part of the territory.

[citation needed] Key agricultural products from Western Sahara include fruits and vegetables (grown in the few oases), as well as camels, sheep and goats.

[8] In April 2010, the Norwegian state-owned salmon company EWOS stopped the purchases of fish oil from Western Sahara and Morocco (with an amount of around 10 million euros annually, and estimated between 12,000 and 20,000 tons of fish oil in total),[9] for "not being in line with the Norwegian authorities' recommendations".

[6] Desertec, a Munich-based solar energy company, declined to place a plant in Western Sahara for "reputational reasons.